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Identify key details in question.  \n2. Read the title.  \n3. Read a sentence above and below given line numbers.  \n4. Pick the literal and obvious answer.  \nSUMMARY QUESTIONS  \n1. Do them last.  \n2. Reread hotspots:  \n Title  \n Intro/Concluding Paragraphs  \n Thesis (last sentence of 1st paragraph)  \n Topic Sentences (1st sentence of paragraphs)  \n3. Review other questions in the passage for clues.  \nVOCABULARY  \n1. Forget what you think the word means.  \n2. Ignore the answer choices.  \n3. Make up your own definition for the word in context.  \n4. Read a sentence above and below the line.  \n5. Plug in the answer choices.  \nEVIDENCE-BASED QUESTIONS  \n1. Choose the line number that matches key details in previous question.  \n2. Choose answer in previous question that matches line number.  \nDATA QUESTIONS  \n1. Look at the key spots:  \n Title of the Graph or Table  \n Columns/Rows  \n X and Y Axes  \n Legend/Key  \n Source  \n2. No assumptions: the answer is in the data.  \nPASSAGE QUESTIONS  \n1. Do 1 passage at a time.  \n2. Make a quick mental summary of each passage  \n3. Usually, the authors disagree.  \nGRAMMAR QUESTIONS  \n1. Choose the shortest answer.  \n Deleting is always the shortest answer.  \n Shortest in number of words, not number of letters  \n This includes punctuation  \n2. Look at how the answers are different.  \n3. Similar answers are probably wrong.  \n4. Keep related words together.  \n5. Keep the same style as the rest of the sentence or paragraph:  \n Tense  \n Tone  \n Number  \n6. Identify the main noun and main verb in the sentence.  \n7. Choose the most boring answer  \nTRANSITIONS  \n1. Read the sentence before and after the sentence, and pick the one that best matches the relationship.  \n2. Transitions are options: delete if given the option.  \n3. 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